Associate Professor Rona Chandrawati
Scientia Associate Professor and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow
լи School of Chemical Engineering
A/Prof Rona Chandrawati graduated with a BSc (Biotechnology) from Monash University and obtained her PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering fromThe University of Melbourne in 2012. She was then a Marie Curie Fellow at Imperial College London before returning to Australia in 2015 to establishher research group. She completed an Executive Leadership Program at the University of Oxford in 2020.
- PhD, The University of Melbourne, 2012
- Marie Curie Fellow, Imperial College London, 2012-2015
- Lecturer, The University of Sydney, 2015-2017
- ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Sydney and լи, 2017-2020
- Scientia Senior Lecturer, լи, 2018-2020
- NHMRC Emerging Leadership EL2 Fellow, լи, 2020-2025
- Scientia Associate Professor, լи, 2021-present
- Australian Research Council College of Experts, 2023-present
- Australian Centre for Nanomedicine Co-Director, 2023-present
A/Prof Chandrawatiheads theNanotechnology for Food and Medicine (NanoFAM) Laboratoryand her research interests include:
- colorimetric nanosensors for food safety, disease diagnosis, and environmental monitoring
- enzyme-like catalysts for the delivery of drugs (nitric oxide) and cell signaling molecules
- nanocoatings on implantable medical devices
Since 2015, she has successfully attracted over AUD 8M in competitive funding as a Lead Chief Investigator + AUD 7.8M in funding as a co-Chief Investigator. She published in prominent journals including Science, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, Advanced Materials, Advanced Science, Small, Angewandte Chemie, Nano Letters, ACS Nano with >6200 citations.
A/ProfChandrawati serves intheWorld Economic Forum Global Future Council in Biotechnology, World Economic Forum's Expert Network, and MIT Technology Review Global Panel.
Awards and Honors:
2023Le Fèvre Medal, Australian Academy of Science
2023 Eureka Prize for Innovative Research in Sustainability Finalist
2022 Materials Today Rising Star Award
2022 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australian Award, Science & Medicine Category Winner
2022 լи Engineering Research Supervisor AwardHonourable Mention
2021NSW Early Career Researcher of the Year (Physical Sciences), NSW Premier's Prizes for Science and Engineering
2021 Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher Finalist
2020 Australia's Most Innovative Engineers, Engineers Australia
2020 Derek Hart Memorial Award
2020 Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigator, Royal Society of Chemistry
2018 Outstanding Postgraduate Research Supervisor Award, լи Sydney
2018 World Economic Forum 40 Young Scientists Under 40
2018 World Economic Forum Global Future Council in Biotechnology
2017 Vice-Chancellor’s Award forOutstanding Early Career Research, The University of Sydney
2017 Engineering Dean’s Research Award, The University of Sydney
2017 NSW Fresh Scientists
2017 30 Stars of Sunway, Jeffrey Cheah Foundation
2015 Elsevier Woman in Chemical Engineering Award
2015 Monash Engineering Women’s Leadership Award
2013 Young Persons’ Lecture Competition Finalist, IOM3
2012 Marie Curie Fellowship
2011 Young Scientist Research Prize Finalist, Royal Society of Victoria
2007 Monash University Dean’s List Fellowship Award
2007 Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Award for Excellence in Chemistry
Grants:
2024ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities LE240100091(co-CI)
2023-2026 Cooperative Research Centre Project Grant (Lead CI)
2022-2024 Cooperative Research Centre Project Grant (Lead CI)
2021ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities LE210100156(co-CI)
2021-2023 Ramaciotti Health Investment Grant (Lead CI)
2020-2025 NHMRC Emerging Leadership EL2 FellowshipAPP1173428 (Lead CI)
2017-2022 ARC Training Centre for Innovative BioEngineeringIC170100022 (co-CI)
2017-2020 ARC Linkage ProjectLP160100988 (co-CI)
2017-2020 ARC DECRA FellowshipDE170100068 (Lead CI)
Editorial Activities:
Editor - Nature Communications Materials
Editor - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
Editorial Advisory Board - Advanced Sensor Research
Editorial Advisory Board - JACS Au
Guest Editor - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews
Guest Editor - Nanoscale Advances
Guest Editor - SensorsSpecial Issue "Biennial State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Australia 2019-2020"
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching:
CHEN6703 Advanced Particle Systems Engineering (2018 - present)
CEIC4951, CEIC4952, CEIC4953Research Thesis (2018 - present)
CEIC9951, CEIC9952, CEIC9953 Advanced Research Thesis (2018 - present)
BMET5931 Nanomaterials in Medicine (2017 - present)
Chandrawati NanoFAMily Lab Members:
1. Dr Federico Mazur (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017 - present)
2. Dr Zifei Han (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023 - present)
3. Dr Kang Lin(Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024 - present)
4. Dr Franco Centurion (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024 - present)
5. Theatinvan Leeuwen (PhD candidate, 2019 - present, primary supervisor: Per Zetterlund)
6. Angie Davina Tjandra (PhD candidate, 2020 - present)
7. Shu Geng (PhD candidate, 2021 - present)
8. Qingqing Fan(PhD candidate, 2021 - present)
9. Annabelle Jiann Huey Lee (PhD candidate, 2021 - present, joint supervision with Alice Lee)
10.Gustavo Sant'Anna (PhD candidate, 2021 - present, joint supervision with Nick Bedford)
10. Siti Nur Asyura Adzlan (PhD candidate, 2023 - present)
11. Yiyi Yin(PhD candidate, 2024 - present)
12. Xinyang Li(PhD candidate, 2024 - present)
13. Xinyue Zhang(Undergraduate research student, 2023-2024)
14. Yixiang Zhong(Undergraduate research student, 2023-2024)
15. Lok Ting Suen (Undergraduate research student, 2024)
Chandrawati NanoFAMily Lab Alumni:
Dr Fabio Lisi - The University of Tokyo
Dr Zijie Luo - Monash University
Dr Yuan Gao - APCO
Dr Yulong Alex Sun - լи
Dr Max Weston - Combined Energy
Dr Tao Yang - University of Oxford
Dr Yingzhu Zhou - Maccura Biotechnology
Sanna Deano - BE Campbell
Paulaena Franco - Ecolab
Linyang Liu - The University of Sydney
Aileen Lu - Amazon Web Services
Andy Pham
Eliza Otton - Nestle
Larissa Reihberg-Laaksonen - City Water Technology
Junwei Tang - vivoPharm
Jennessa Tubman - Goodman Fielder
Andy Wang - Boston Consulting Group
Jonson Zhou - Macquarie Group
Chandrawati NanoFAMily Lab Awards and Honors:
2024 RSC Applied Polymers Best Oral Presentation Prize (Zifei Han)
2024 Poster Award at the World Biomaterials Congress (Shu Geng)
2024Poster Award at the World Biomaterials Congress (Qingqing Fan)
2024Australian Centre for Nanomedicine Travel Award (Qingqing Fan)
2024Australian Centre for Nanomedicine Travel Award (Shu Geng)
2023 Poster Presentation Prize at the International Nanomedicine Conference (Qingqing Fan)
2023Australian Centre for Nanomedicine Travel Award (Qingqing Fan)
2023Australian Centre for Nanomedicine Travel Award (Shu Geng)
2022 լи Academic Excellence Award (Federico Mazur)
2022 Winner լи Founders New Wave Program(Angie Tjandra)
2022 Winner JCEC NSW Annual Postgraduate Championship (Angie Tjandra)
2022 NSW International Student of the Year - Higher Education Finalist (Angie Tjandra)
2022 լи Engineering Research Candidate Award(Angie Tjandra)
2022 Best Oral Presentation at the International Nanomedicine Conference (Angie Tjandra)
2022 Best Poster Presentation at the RACI PolyNSW Symposium (Yuan Gao)
2022 Australian Centre for Nanomedicine Travel Award (Yuan Gao)
2022 Australian Centre for Nanomedicine Travel Award (Yingzhu Zhou)
2022Lyceum Club Thesis Prize (Andy Pham)
2021 Dean's Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis (Tao Yang)
2021 Innovyz Commercialisation Poster Prize (Tao Yang)
2021 լи Student Award (Angie Tjandra)
2020 Nature Communications Materials Training Grant for Early Career Researchers (Fabio Lisi)
2020 լи Early Career Academic Seed Funding (Fabio Lisi)
2020 Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre Image of the Month (Yingzhu Zhou)
2019 Australian Nanotechnology Network Overseas Travel Fellowship (Tao Yang)
2019 Australian Centre for Nanomedicine Travel Award (Tao Yang)
2019 Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre Image of the Month (Tao Yang)
2019 Australian Nanotechnology Network Travel Bursary (Federico Mazur)
2018 Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Horizon Oral Presentation Prize (Federico Mazur)
2018 լи Student Award (Federico Mazur)
2017 Best Postgraduate Thesis from the IChemE Joint Chemical Engineering Committee (JCEC) NSW(Federico Mazur)
To prospective students and postdoctoral fellows, please contact rona.chandrawati@unsw.edu.au for more info.
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